If he gets them into next season's Champions League with a big performance on Wednesday night, he will have repaid a large chunk of the world-record £89million they splurged on him last summer.

But more importantly he will have laid down a marker saying he has the capacity to turn up in the biggest games and really dominate them.

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For much of this season, what we’ve seen from the Frenchman has been solid but not spectacular. And that, of course, has led to all sorts of comments on the back of the huge amount of money Juventus received for him.

I never worried too much about that — after all, players don’t set or agree transfer fees.

But I have judged him on the marketing campaigns and all the hype he has been happy to promote.

First there was the little Adidas rap video with Stormzy when his move was being confirmed, the one that told us, ‘I’m here, I’ve arrived, I’m the big guy…’

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When he was in Turin, Pogba had some very big names around him in the legend that is Gigi Buffon, plus Giorgio Chiellini, Leonardo Bonucci, Andrea Barzagli and Patrice Evra.

They are players who have been around the block and could help him move forward and push on, while he was the kid Juve helped take to the next level.

Now he’s back at United, and with Zlatan Ibrahimovic looking like he is done, Wayne Rooney apparently going and Michael Carrick soon to go, he has to become the player who takes that responsibility and becomes the driving force for the club.

So what better time to show you can do it than a tier-two European final?

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I don’t think it’s too much to expect him to walk off with the Man of the Match award having been involved in the thick of the action in a gane his boss, Jose Mourinho, has described as the biggest in United’s history.

That is clearly not the case, because the first Premier League win under Sir Alex Ferguson in 1992-93 started an era of dominance. The European Cup triumph in 1968 was huge as well.

But United need to return themselves to the very top table both at home and in Europe, and without Champions League football on offer they will struggle to attract some of the players they hope will get them there next season.